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Dates

  • Existence: 1791 - 1811
  • Existence: 1824 -

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Found in 90 Collections and/or Records:

Correspondence, forms and event programs, 1978

 File — Box 80, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents

Includes a letter from Parental Involvement Now regarding "Monthly program progress report," 10 May 1978

Dates: 1978
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 3: Academic Career / 3.4: College of Charleston

Correspondence, newspaper articles, brochures, and flyers, 1999-2000

 File — Box 45: Series Series 2, Folder: 11
Identifier: Series 2
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series: Holds correspondence, memorandums, reports, bills and resolutions, journals, manuals, legislative updates and various documents pertaining to the following included subseries: State of South Carolina General Assembly; Adminstrative Documents and Committee Appointments; Standing Committees of the South Carolina House of Representatives; General Assembly Joint Committees; Bills Authored/and/or Initiated by Whipper; Bills Co-Sponsored by Whipper; General Bills and Resolutions; Special...
Dates: 1999-2000
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 2: Political Career / 2.4: State of South Carolina Legislative Branch-The General Assembly: House of Representatives: The Honorable Lucille Whipper / 2.4.10: State of South Carolina Colleges, Universities and Technical Colleges / 2.4.10.3: College of Charleston

Correspondence: Retirement, 1980 - 1981

 File — Box 80, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents

Contains College of Charleston newsletter with letters and cards sent to Whipper regarding her retirement as Director of Human Relations.

Dates: 1980 - 1981
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 3: Academic Career / 3.4: College of Charleston

Jane McDonald Craver scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0010
Collection Overview Three scrapbooks: (1) Sept. 1940-June 1941; (2) July 1941-Dec. 1942; and (3) Jan. 1943-June 1944 contain a collection of memorabilia providing a comprehensive record of social life at the College of Charleston from 1940-1944, from student and city newspapers about the College and the deaths of alumni during World War II. The scrapbooks include invitations to parties and weddings, party favors and napkins, dance cards and booklets, photographs of picnics and beach parties, sorority rush rules...
Dates: 1940-1944
Found in: Special Collections

Thomas Della Torre papers

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0034-021
Collection Overview

The collection contains undated lecture notes for professor della Torre, the funeral announcement of Cherubina Faverio Torriani (1929), and the funeral announcement of Princess Marie von Thurn Taxis (1934).

Dates: approximately 1878-1934
Found in: Special Collections

Alexander Colclough Dick collection

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 0024
Collection Overview

Collection contains biographical information about Dick including copies of recommendations for him to receive a Rhodes Scholarship and for Officer Training in the United States Army. Also included are photographs of Dick upon graduation from Oxford University in c. 1922 and upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the College of Charleston in 1970, and a portrait made of him in c. 1950. The collection contains the academic hoods presented by Oxford and the College of Charleston.

Dates: 1922-1970
Found in: Special Collections

Director, Office of Human Relations, 1975

 File — Box 80, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains materials pertaining to Whipper's tenure as Assistant to the President (1972-1976), and Director of the Office of Human Relations (1978-1981).

Dates: 1975
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 3: Academic Career / 3.4: College of Charleston

Director, Office of Human Relations, 1976

 File — Box 80, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

Contains materials pertaining to Whipper's tenure as Assistant to the President (1972-1976), and Director of the Office of Human Relations (1978-1981).

Dates: 1976
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 3: Academic Career / 3.4: College of Charleston

Director, Office of Human Relations: Correspondence, 1977

 File — Box 80, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents

Also refer to Charleston County School District: ESAA Project 1975-1977, Box 81, Folders 1-5.

Dates: 1977
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture / Lucille Simmons Whipper papers / Series 3: Academic Career / 3.4: College of Charleston

Edmund Lee Drago collection

 Collection
Identifier: AMN 1051
Abstract Scholar, author, and history professor, Edmund Lee Drago began his teaching career at the College of Charleston in 1975. He is the author of "Initiative, Paternalism and Race Relations: Charleston's Avery Normal Institute" (1990), among other books. His research focus is 19th century U.S. History, African American and Charleston history, and the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The Edmund Lee Drago Papers are organized in three series. The first consists of materials related to his...
Dates: 1784-2009, undated; Majority of material found in 1865-1991
Found in: Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
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